PRTG Manual: Active Directory Replication Errors Sensor
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The Active Directory Replication Errors sensor checks a Windows domain controller (DC) for replication errors.
Active Directory Replication Errors Sensor
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
Sensor in Other Languages
Dutch: Active Directory Replicatie Fouten
French: Active Directory erreurs de réplication
German: Active Directory Replikationsfehler
Japanese: AD レプリケーションエラー監視
Portuguese: Erros de replicação Active Directory
Russian: Ошибки репликации Active Directory
Simplified Chinese: 活动目录复制错误
Spanish: Errores de replicación Active Directory
Remarks
This sensor has a high performance impact. We recommend that you use no more than 200 of this sensor on each probe.
This sensor requires the probe system to be part of the domain whose Active Directory you want to monitor.
This sensor requires.NET 4.7.2 or later from Microsoft on the probe system. If the sensor shows the error PE087, additionally install .NET 3.5 on the probe system.
We recommend Windows Server 2012 R2 on the probe system for best performance of this sensor.
This sensor requires that the parent device is a DC.
This sensor requires credentials for Windows systems in the settings of the parent device.
This sensor supports IPv6.
This sensor uses lookups to determine the status values of one or more channels.
You cannot add this sensor to the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. If you want to use this sensor, add it to a remote probe device.
Detailed Requirements
Requirement
Description
Member of Windows domain
This sensor only works if the probe system is part of the domain whose Active Directory you want to monitor. You must add this sensor to a device that represents the DC.
.NET 4.7.2 or later
This sensor requires .NET 4.7.2 or later to be installed on the probe system (on every cluster node, if on a cluster probe).
If the framework is missing, you cannot create this sensor.
This sensor requires credentials for Windows systems in the settings of the parent device. We recommend that you use Windows domain credentials.
If you use local credentials, make sure that the same Windows user accounts (with the same user name and password) exist on both the probe system and the target system. Otherwise, the sensor cannot correctly connect.
If the name contains angle brackets (<>), PRTG replaces them with braces ({}) for security reasons. For more information, see the Knowledge Base: What security features does PRTG include?
This setting is for your information only. You cannot change it.
Tags
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
It is not possible to enter tags with a leading plus (+) or minus (-) sign, nor tags with parentheses (()) or angle brackets (<>).
For performance reasons, it can take some minutes until you can filter for new tags that you added.
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
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Priority
Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority () to the highest priority ().
Sensor Settings
Sensor Settings
Setting
Description
Replication Neighbor
The replication neighbor whose replication connection this sensor monitors.
Naming Context
Select the Active Directory naming context that you want to monitor:
Configuration (default): Includes information about partitions, sites, services, or the Active Directory schema.
Schema: Includes the information by which objects, classes, and attributes that are used in the Active Directory are defined.
DomainDnsZones: Includes information about the domain controllers that are in the domain.
Domain: Includes domain information that is replicated to this domain's domain controllers, for example information about computers or users. The probe system must be part of the domain whose naming context you want to monitor.
ForestDnsZones: Includes information about domain controllers in the forest.
You cannot change this value after sensor creation.
Debug Options
Debug Options
Setting
Description
Result Handling
Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:
Discard result: Do not store the sensor result.
Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file names are Result of Sensor [ID].txt and Result of Sensor [ID].Data.txt. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites these files with each scanning interval.
In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.
Sensor Display
Sensor Display
Setting
Description
Primary Channel
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.
You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.
Graph Type
Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:
Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic. You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).
Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic. You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).
Stack Unit
This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above.
Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.
Inherited Settings
By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Scanning Interval.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window.
Access Rights
Access Rights
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Access Rights.
Channel Unit Configuration
Which channel units are available depends on the sensor type and the available parameters. If no configurable channels are available, this field shows No configurable channels.
Channel Unit Configuration
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Channel Unit Configuration.
Channel List
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Setting
Description
Consecutive Sync Failures
The number of consecutive synchronization failures
Downtime
In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status
Is Deleted Source
If the source is deleted
Up status: No
Down status: Yes
Last Sync Attempt
The time of the last synchronization attempt
Last Sync Result
The result of the last synchronization
This channel is the primary channel by default.
Last Sync Success
The time of the last synchronization success
Modified Consecutive Sync Failures
The number of modified, consecutive synchronization failures